Happy Tuesday webform members.
This week's email is different. Let me explain.
Vision
The goal of webform.vc is to improve returns for LPs through a quality filter.
I'm adding this monthly update and KPI email to measure against this goal; today you're receiving the first.
Like everything about webform, the update format will evolve but broadly include:
KPIs
strategy to increase quality of deal flow
requests for community action
KPIs
Since I launched webform.vc 4 weeks ago:
3 early-stage deals curated
$4.45M of $6M available raised across these 3 deals
7 startups nominated via inbound form submissions and existing investors (thank you @Shima, @2Punks and @Magrathea for nominating!)
Strategy: enabling member nomination
The startups I curate are based on personal investment theses.
That said:
you don't know these theses;
webform members have their own theses; and
I'm a bottleneck to member-nominated deals as a 1-person review committee.
So, going forward:
I will publish my investment theses on webform so you better understand why I curated startup XYZ; and
webform.vc will have a "Matei-curated" and a "member-nominated" section, in both cases giving credit to the webform nominator
Members must be accepted via the webform and so member-nominations are high-signal, just not my signal.
If you feedback on how to do community-nominators right, DM me on Telegram. As a next step, I will create a community-nomination form separate from the public webform and pin it in Telegram.
Community action: get your OG Member NFT & share your theses
1) Deal emails are now token-gated; tokens are airdropped to members after they are accepted via the webform.
ACTION: I need your ETH wallet address to airdrop you 1 of 100 OG member NFTs - first come first serve for the lower numbered tokens (AKA bragging rights as webform grows).
2) Member-nominated deals will go live next email, after I think through the process more:
ACTION: Share your investment theses with me for publication (or republication) on webform so I and the community can understand what you nominate and curate for you what you want to see.
You can DM in Telegram @teieth or email matei@webform.vc with responses to both action items.
Join the telegram if you haven't yet.
Special thank you @Colin Armstrong (founder @ Paragraph.xyz, our newsletter platform & webform.vc member) for doing a 1-off fix so we can gate with ERC-1155s.
Lastly, Happy Holidays!
-Matei